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hi, i need some help getting grub to run with dualboot on my system.
i have a kt7a-raid with onboard hpt370 ide raid controller. i just use the hpt as ide controller without the raid function though. i'm running suse 9.1 and winxp-sp1
my ide setup is following:

well i started off with just the disks on hda and hde and installed grub on the mbr of hde as from hda it would boot linux fine but no windows and it worked fine with linux and win booting.
then i shut it down and connected the raw drive to hdg.
i checked if the boot device for the hpt370 was still set to hde and tried to boot.
but grub just states "GRUB " followed by a flashing cursor and doesnt do anything more.

i restored the mbr of hde with fixmbr and installed grub on hda mbr. now i can at least boot linux and win but i have to change boot device in bios everytime i want to change os but i'd prefer to get grub running if anyone can tell me what i did wrong...

b4 playing with your bios make sure you know how to make changes etc. Actually you can't do too much damage with the bios technique to install windows to your third drive as long as you know how to reset your drives 1 and 2 back into bios boot up (for the Grub on hda to work)

4) Notice the grub file will be on hda that if we agree is the one you alter. If you do install linux to the third drive any /boot folder there is more like a chainload for linux ok?